{"id":14675,"date":"2016-08-07T05:13:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T05:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/new\/?p=14675"},"modified":"2016-11-07T05:26:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T05:26:12","slug":"being-grateful-for-passing-urine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=14675","title":{"rendered":"Being Grateful for Passing Urine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Towards the end of his life, Hazrat Moulana Ahmad Shah Saahib (rahmatullahi\u00a0\u2018alaih) suffered some type of a sickness affecting his bladder. He passed urine by using a tube attached to a bottle, which he held in his hands. He even had to travel in this condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Someone once asked him: \u201cWhat is the cause of this sickness?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy evil actions,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Puzzled, the man asked: \u201cWhat evil actions are you talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFor years on end, I was able to pass urine a few times in a day with ease and comfort. However, not once did this ungrateful tongue of mine ever express gratitude to Allah Ta\u2018ala for this favour of His. Which action can be more evil than this? Allah Ta\u2018ala has warned us of His punishment for ingratitude:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0626\u0650\u0646 \u0643\u064e\u0641\u064e\u0631\u0652\u062a\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0625\u0650\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0639\u064e\u0630\u064e\u0627\u0628\u0650\u064a \u0644\u064e\u0634\u064e\u062f\u0650\u064a\u062f\u064c<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cAnd if you are ungrateful, indeed My punishment is severe.\u201d (Surah Ebrahim, v7)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/faqihul-ummah\/mawaiz-discourses.html\"><em>(Discourses of Faqeeh-ul-Ummah Hazrat Mufti Mahmood Hasan Gangohi, vol. 2, pg. 5)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mawaaiz-selected-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14682,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions\/14682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}